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UNEP and Google Partner to Hunt for Plastic Pollution With Machine Learning
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced that it is working to fight plastic pollution using citizen science and machine learning, with technical advisory support from Google. With Google’s support, UNEP will...
The First Glass Packaging Containers on the Streets in Sombor
The citizens of Sombor and the surrounding areas can start recycling glass, with the first 70 packaging waste containers being placed on the streets, and another 80 containers expected in the weeks...
How Technology Helped Serbia Save 180 Million Sheets of Paper in Less Than Four Years
Digitalization and e-governance can seem like abstract concepts.But, in a session at the World Economic Forum's Global Technology Governance Summit, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić gave an example of how going virtual can...
What the Law on Energy Efficiency and Rational Use of Energy Brings
Recently, the Government of the Republic of Serbia has adopted four draft laws, among them the Draft Law on Energy Efficiency and Rational Use of Energy.
The aim of enacting this law is...
Urban Fish Ponds: Low-Tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities
In the mid 20th century, whole cities’ sewage systems safely and successfully used fish to treat and purify their water. Waste-fed fish ponds are a low-tech, cheap, and sustainable alternative to deal...
Floating Islands in the Fight for Clean Lakes
The project “Revitalization of the lake at the locality of Trešnja by the System of floating islands” has been recognized on several occasions as an example of good practice, both by the...
How to Value and Preserve Water
Thinking big to protect the world’s biggest natural capital asset
Water, the source of life - celebrated on World Water Day – is under pressure from climate change. With some regions becoming drier...
How Renewables Offer New Solutions for District Heating and Cooling
Innovation in technology, digitalisation and building efficiency are opening the heating sector to low-temperature renewables according to IRENA report.
Heating is the largest end user of energy, accounting for over 50 percent of...
EBRD and EU Help Serbia’s Bel-Plast to Become More Energy Efficient
How an investment in modern equipment led to significant savings
Thirty years ago, the Špijunović family started a small home business. Today, the company’s facilities span 4,000 m2. Bel-Plast, in the Serbian city...
Fast-Track Energy Transitions to Win the Race to Zero
Proven technologies for a net-zero energy system already largely exist today, finds the preview of World Energy Transitions Outlook by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable power, green hydrogen and modern bioenergy will dominate...
Jadarite Between Business Secret and Public Interest
The American information site Bloomberg published an estimate that lithium demand will increase eight times in the next ten years. This forecast does not seem surprising, since there is already an almost...
Renewable Energy: Common Myths Debunked
Critics of renewable energy often cite two reasons for why they think a transition from fossil fuels will take half a century. Firstly, that sources of renewable energy are too intermittent to...
ABB Recognized as a Globally Leading Innovative Corporation
Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator lists ABB for the fifth time in ten years as top global innovation leader.
ABB has been named one of the world’s most innovative companies 2021 by Clarivate,...
Number 20 – March 2021
The year 2020 passed. It was not the first one that was long and heavy. I believe that each of us remembers both worse and better years. However, our nature is hopeful, so we...
UN Environment Assembly Concludes With an Urgent Call For Action to Solve Planetary Emergencies
Ministers of environment and other leaders from more than 150 nations today concluded a two-day online meeting of the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in which the Assembly warned that the...
A Ten Step Plan to Save Our Seas
The year 2050 has been predicted by some to be a bleak year for the ocean. Experts say that by 2050 there may be more plastic than fish in the sea, or perhaps only...
